Hyperglycemia in septic patients: an essential stress survival response in all, a robust marker for risk stratification in some, to be messed with in none

Since the very beginning of medicine the relation between glucose and illness has been of interest to physicians, as already Hippocrates stated: “Si quis febricitanti cibum det, convalescent quidem, robur: aegrotanti vero, morbus fit.” (That nutrition, which is beneficial in the stage of convalescence from fever, would be truly injurious during the prevalence of the disease).